From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqFgO-00062P-6E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:21:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE4DAE0401; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29524E0401 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1031625eyk.10 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=4HfxPwmFLnFx76IP1w1bnC6vniBa8u+DQImBAcXYd4g=; b=xn1qg17Ct2XTlClniAOJ042dzJvcgVCTCofQ3dfHtJW/aHxiLAo35LfOVXSWA8GAWJ NlHXF9Wo9vQRJFzW6KOkYW09rVQCq9pOfU59yHLfh6kYCbLFkC/VpSelPi8lj3gq+q+W 1CK9epY5IU5fwX71YZNfRPk0xDvqUJE1jHqM8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=ITvObptMKEIzjj0Dj6shL2xzY4ZG5Q+4DVzKCvn7S0Ov7orm2uLd8KOEQG3ZNUXx6/ LKBwDYZsZ6as36bO5bnsu7R7wv8tOqsMzO480BPCE3h5h7UeFtjIZw7/dxGUKihzZfch HDuH4ZAOV4BUazRvCX1+VDuEnP17t1pAPm1SE= Received: by 10.210.49.7 with SMTP id w7mr1886087ebw.196.1224112774585; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g9sm1122006gvc.0.2008.10.15.16.19.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:19:27 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] some global useflags Message-ID: <20081016001927.31544b1f@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081015214706.GZ23490@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> References: <20081015183632.499d5e6c@gentoo.org> <20081015174338.5ee92974@googlemail.com> <20081015214706.GZ23490@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/YSkTnttraLHJHik2Q6lrMc/"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 39c0cde6-7c28-419d-a8f5-a06405c41e5f X-Archives-Hash: e8c02c3223a6326ee5dd41201803d1e3 --Sig_/YSkTnttraLHJHik2Q6lrMc/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:06 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:43:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Utterly illegal, needs to die. > > Why? I don't agree that it needs to be the global useflags, but I > don't consider it illegal either. It's illegal. Generated metadata must be constant and can't vary based upon user configuration, because if it does the package manager will show the wrong information at --pretend time. See bug #24439, for example. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/YSkTnttraLHJHik2Q6lrMc/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj2eoEACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGzrQCfcRJDjRq4EhPE8nH730OdEYAH MeMAn2Wtn3qFIuFYx2BbNAOqCD6es4o/ =M0Sd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/YSkTnttraLHJHik2Q6lrMc/--